Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 is a first persion shooter PC game, and the successor to Half-Life?. It was released in 2004 for PC, and was developed by Valve and published
by Vivendi Universal. The game is set in a fictional universe in the near future in a city named City17 where the player is part of a rebel organization formed by citizens who fight against totalitary regime.
Game Technology
Halflife 2 uses the Source Engine as main middle ware technology. This engine was specially developed for Half-Life 2 by Valve between about 1999 and 2004, and works similar to the Quake 2 Engine, on which Half-Life 2's precedessor, Half-Life was based on: It uses BSP Trees? to divide the 3D world and perform culling to increase the rendering speed. It supports D3D 7, 8, and 9, and uses the Havok Physics Engine as Physics Library.
For more details, please see the Source Engine main article.
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